Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
Describe the health initiative addressed.
Identify credible data sources.
Choose appropriate statistical measures.
Present an action plan based on decisions from data analysis.
Analyze a given data set for the purpose of making a decision.
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation on the best action based on clinical data.
Course outcomes assessed in this Assignment:
HS312-6: Explain the relationship between health data analytics and business decisions to improve a specific healthcare initiative.
Please complete using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint–as indicated in the instructions.
Assignment Requirements
The body of your Microsoft Word document should be at least 1500 words in length.
Your PowerPoint presentation should be at least 10 slides–excluding the title slide and references.
Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper and presentation. Paraphrasing is necessary.
Students must cite and reference at least 4 credible sources from the online Library.
Please be sure to utilize the resources available in Academic Tools to help with meeting APA expectations for written assignments.
Instructions
Imagine that you are an executive for a health organization. As part of your role within the healthcare leadership team, you are tasked with analyzing organizational data for decision-making purposes. For this assignment, you will obtain raw data, analyze it, and make recommendations for organizational decisions. Please follow the instructions below in completion of this multi-part assignment.
Apply analytical results to facilitate decision-making
Part
Competency Assessed
Instructions
1
Apply analytical results to facilitate decision-making
Create a presentation on your exploratory data analysis of mined data sets for an executive healthcare team. Include a summary of your analysis, statistical tables, and data visualizations. Conclude your presentation on the importance of executive dashboards.
2
Recommended organizational action based on knowledge obtained from data exploration and mining
Based on your analysis, make three (3) recommendations for evidence-based decision-making relevant for organizational action or change.
3
Analyze clinical data to identify trends that demonstrate quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare
Examine the clinical data to identify trends related to healthcare (1) quality, (2) safety, and (3) effectiveness.
4
Evaluate administrative reports using appropriate software
Obtain a raw data set from www.healthdata.gov and explore the data set using PSPP. Generate analytical outputs from PSPP that include the appropriate selection of both descriptive and inferential statistics. If you are not able to process one data set using descriptive and inferential statistics, then select one data set for descriptive statistics and another data set for inferential statistics. Generate tables in PSPP that reflect your statistical analyses and include at least three (3) appropriate data visualizations.
5
Interpret inferential statistics
Compose a discussion in which you evaluate the findings from your analysesinterpreting the descriptive and inferential statistics.
6
Analyze statistical data for decision making
Within your presentation, analyze the statistical data for decision-making by organizing various presentations of data visualizationshighlighting multiple perspectives on the same topic.
